Emil Warburg | |
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Born | Emil Gabriel Warburg 9 March 1846 Altona |
Died | 28 July 1931 Bayreuth |
(aged 85)
Residence | Germany |
Nationality | German |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions |
University of Berlin University of Strassburg University of Freiburg |
Alma mater | University of Berlin |
Doctoral advisor | Heinrich Gustav Magnus |
Doctoral students |
Gustav Heinrich Angenheister Eduard Grüneisen James Franck Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Edgar Meyer R. W. Pohl |
Other notable students | Hans von Euler-Chelpin |
Notes | |
He was the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg.
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Emil Gabriel Warburg (9 March 1846 – 28 July 1931) was a German physicist who during his career was professor of physics at the Universities of Strassburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1899-1905. He was a friend of Albert Einstein.
Among his students were James Franck (Nobel prize for physics 1925), Eduard Grüneisen, Robert Pohl, Erich Regener and Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Nobel prize for chemistry 1929). He was a member of the Warburg family. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry.
He was the father of Otto Heinrich Warburg.